Lowering Drinking Age: A Crucial Decision? Thesis statement: Despite the fact that many Americans claim that persons under 21 do not have the capacity to handle drinking‚ in my opinion‚ drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18 due to the fact that teenagers at the age of 18 can make important decisions‚ and the prohibition of alcohol has not been successful in the last 30 years. There are some reasons why people believe that teens should be prohibited from drinking at the age of 18
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the 18th birthday is the most desired milestones. It is known as the beginning of adulthood and you now have the luxury of making your own decisions‚ which can sometimes be dangerous and/or life changing. Teen drinking is on the rise. The SADD reports that “72% of students have consumed alcohol by the end of high school‚ and 37% have done so by eighth grade”. By the age of eighteen the law recognizes these young people as adults‚ they are eligible to serve our country‚ they can be prosecuted and convicted
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1. What is the most commonly used and abused drug? Alcohol 2. Why don’t younger people generally see anything dangerous about consuming alcohol? WE see our parents drinking‚ we see it accepted. Don’t considerate a drug. It is glamourized by society. 3. What is binge drinking? Drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time‚ or a couple of days. 4. What other countries face problems associated with binge drinking? UK‚ and USA We have similar culture to the USA and UK‚
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Statement of the problem: 1. When did you start drinking liquors? 2. Why are you drinking liquors? 3. What is the effect of liquor to your health? 4. How many times you drink liquor? 5. Who are the persons influence you to drink liquor? 6. What is the effect of smoking in your studying? 7. How many sticks did you take in one week? 8. What are the attitudes of LPU student’s toward smoking? 9. What are the attitudes of male and female
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Underage Drinking Many teens face adult problems at a very young age. Underage drinking viewed in the eyes of parents and law enforcement agencies is a major problem among teen. In today society‚ kids are being pressured into doing things at a very young adolescent age. Problem many parents are facing in their own life are also posing as problems on their kids. The answer teens today must make is no longer just what shoes to wear or what matches what‚ but the must decided on drugs. Amongst
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Intoxicated Driving: Can Technology make it Impossible English 111-2DE Problem-Solution Essay Intoxicated Driving: Can Technology make it Impossible Drinking and driving has affected many of my friends and family and myself. A drunk driver hit my sister-in-law 20 years ago. He man hit her while she was walking to work. On impact‚ she was pinned between two vehicles. The accident changed her life dramatically. She lost both of her legs from the knee down and sustained
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caution when thinking about drinking. Drinking is getting way out of hand for teens and people over 21. Teens should not be drinking. They are getting a higher chance of turning into an alcoholic as they drink more and more. Those people need to learn to have a sober driver that is willing to drive one person home safe. One person may get in trouble with the adult or the cop but it’s way better than losing his/her life with a stupid mistake he/she made. The punishment for drinking under the influence needs
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Underage drinking has a lot of negative outcomes and can affect you and the people around you. Drinking on campus can also negatively affect and jeopardize your status as a student. It can also be a danger to your health. Alcohol is the number one drug problem in America according to an online source from www.sacsherriff.com. It causes you to make bad decisions that you wouldn’t normally make. People become dazed‚ belligerent‚ and often find themselves with fines‚ at the hospital or even jail.
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Drinking at 18 The drinking age should be 18 because less high school students would binge drink. For three reason. One reason is that The united states is in the minority of have the drinking age be 21. Another reason is If 18 year olds have other big responsiblities they should be resopsible enough to drink. Also having the alcohol age being 18 would make teens less likely to become criminal. There are only four countries including the United States that order 21 to be the drinking age. In
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married‚ but not allowed to buy alcohol. Because of organizations such as M.A.D.D. fought to eliminate alcoholic fatalities among young adults. As a result‚ the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed to the states that stated to raise the minimum drinking age to twenty-one or lose ten percent of their Federal Highway Funding. Many people agree that the raising of the legal drinking age has become more of a problem than a solution. There has been proof that the drinking age law isn’t causing much
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